Reports

Reporting for duty! Over the years I’ve written numerous reports about poetry events. The following is a selection of these and other reports, arranged chronologically. See also the Contests page for reports on many contests I’ve judged over the years.

Comments or questions? Please contact Michael Dylan Welch.

Personal

• A Tribute to Norman Friedman

• 2009: A Summary of My Poetic Year 

• 2010: A Summary of My Poetic Year

• 2011: A Summary of My Poetic Year

• 2012: A Summary of My Poetic Year

Haiku

• Two Autumns Reading Series, 1991

• Japanese Renku Group Visits San Francisco (1991) [includes a new postscript about rengay]

• A Modest Proposal

• Haiku Canada Memory

• A Report on Haiku Chicago (1995)

• Haiku Chicago: The Gift of Haiku (1995)

• American Haiku Archives Inauguration (1996) [includes photos]

• Haiku Society of America Thirtieth-Anniversary Haiku Retreat (1998)

• Haiku Society of America National Quarterly Meeting in Seattle (June 2010)

• Sound Haiku: The 2014 Seabeck Haiku Getaway

Haiku North America Conferences

• A Report on Haiku North America 1991

• A Report on Haiku North America 1993

• A Report on Haiku North America 2001

• A Report on Haiku North America 2005

• A Report on Haiku North America 2009

• Haiku North America 2019 Sizzles

Tanka

• Tanka Society of America Plenary Meeting (2000)

• Report on the Third International Tanka Convention (2000)

• A Tanka Turning Point: The Tanka Society of America “Tanka Day” (2003)

• Tanka Monday Report (2019)

Tanka Society of America

Most of my president’s messages from the TSA Newsletter and the society’s later journal, Ribbons, are republished here.

• President’s Message: A Celebration of Tanka (TSA Newsletter 1:1)

• President’s Message: International Connections (TSA Newsletter 1:2)

• President’s Message: Tanka Today (TSA Newsletter 2:1)

• President’s Message: Tanka Travels (TSA Newsletter 2:2)

• President’s Message: Hand in Hand (TSA Newsletter 2:3)

• President’s Message: Constant Change (TSA Newsletter 2:4)

• President’s Message: Surveying Recent Tanka Criticism (TSA Newsletter 3:1)

• President’s Message: Tanka Elbow Room (TSA Newsletter 3:2)

• President’s Message: The Endless Stream (TSA Newsletter 3:3)

• President’s Message: A Poetry of Change (TSA Newsletter 3:4)

• President’s Message: Peace and War (TSA Newsletter 4:1)

• President’s Message: Promoting Tanka (TSA Newsletter 4:2)

• President’s Message: A Tanka Turning Point—“Tanka Day” (TSA Newsletter 4:3)

• President’s Message: Acts of Faith (TSA Newsletter 4:4)

• President’s Message: A New Year’s Potential (TSA Newsletter 5:1)

• President’s Message: Summer Unfolding (TSA Newsletter 5:2)

• President’s Message: Nurturing Community (TSA Newsletter 5:3)

• President’s Message: The Best Is Yet to Come (TSA Newsletter 5:4)

• President’s Message (Ribbons 16:2)

• President’s Message (Ribbons 16:3)

• President’s Message (Ribbons 17:3)

• President’s Message (Ribbons 19:2)